IBM Flex - Power Node Capability

Craig Cannon IBM Business Development Manager

IT economics is driving converging

infrastructure

Mobile, social, big data & analytics are redefining

client engagement

IMPROVEIT EFFICIENCY

!To lower IT cost

MEET DEMAND !

Of new applications, and workloads thru IT

consolidation

SIMPLIFY CLOUD !

With choice in infrastructure,

application and platforms

Cloud is the new delivery model

IT Imperatives

Market shifts are driving IT imperatives

2

Today’s challenge: Time spent tuning general purpose components

of IT Managerssay security is the biggest challenge

in adopting mobility4

of IT Budgets used on

maintenance3

of organizations fall behind schedule when

deploying new IT capabilities5

Is your infrastructure Cloud Ready? Data Ready? Security Ready?

71% 2/368%

IBM PureFlex: Value of an Integrated infrastructure

Investment Protection!• Support the next decade of growth in your datacenter: • Chassis supports multiple 40Gb Ethernet Channels and 16Gb Fibre Channels • Switches that allow you to grow as your I/O requirements change • Power and thermal designed to support higher wattage requirements of future

processors, storage, I/O, networking, and management

Deliver Services Faster!• Architected and certified Virtual Desktop Solutions • Networking to discover, simplify, and secure VM deployments • Management optimized to setup / deploy resources faster and more securely • Single point of contact for life-cycle

Lower Operational Expenses!• Consolidates more 3rd party technologies than any other competitor • Works within the datacenter you own today and tomorrow • Choice of Compute, Storage, OS, Hypervisor and Network components • Improve IT management efficiencies

PureFlex

POWER7

POWER7+ DCM

POWER7+ SCM

2 Socket 4 Socket

!!!

Database / Consolidation

Enterprise Performance

!

Business Applications (SAP, ERP, Small DB)

Infrastructure Applications

(file/ print/ collaboration)

p24L Linux only !2-sockets

8 to 16-cores !Optional

High-Valuefeatures !

Competitive with x86

p460!

AIX/IBM i/Linux!4-sockets

16 to 32-cores!Flexible

configuration!Leadership

Virtualization!Demanding Database

p270AIX/IBM i/Linux!

2-sockets24-cores only!

Dual SAS Controllers!Leadership

Virtualization!Cloud Ready

p260!AIX/IBM i/Linux!

2-sockets4 to 16-cores!

Flexible configuration!Leadership

Virtualization!Application Workloads

Flex System: POWER compute node Positioning

Cores: 8 / 16Max Memory: 512

GB

Cores: 24Max Memory: 512 GB

Cores: 16 / 32Max Memory: 1 TB

Cores: 4Max Memory: 512 GB

p2607895-23A

p2607895-23X

p2707954-24X

p4607895-43X

Power Flex POWER7 + Node Offerings

IVM / HMC Power Flex Node support…

• HMC Power Flex Node Management • Chassis: Controls only Power Nodes

- Intel & Storage nodes can be installed - No FSM presence

• Nodes appear as stand alone servers • Virtualization / Configuration Management • Energy Management • 7.7.0 Firmware is required